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Definition of Specific Impulse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. W. Price*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, China Lake, California

Extract

The collected comments of Messrs. Greenwood (December 1953 and October 1954 JOURNAL), Thorne (February and October 1954 JOURNAL), and Asquith and Whitaker (May and October 1954 JOURNAL) on the definition of specific impulse in the field of rocket propulsion argue certain traditional points of view, each of which has enough merit to gain proponents but apparently not enough merit to gain universal acceptance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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